Kevin Rector

Writer

Kevin Rector covers the Baltimore Police Department and city crime. Kevin joined The Baltimore Sun as a breaking news reporter in 2012, is an Ellicott City native and a Terp, and has never been on a road trip he didn’t love.

Recent Articles

A barrage of evening gunfire that wounded four men and killed an additional man in West Baltimore accounted for less than half the city’s shooting victims Thursday, the most violent day of acting Police Commissioner Michael Harrison’s short tenure. In all, 12 people were shot — four fatally — in...

Standing before a crowd of more than 75 religious leaders at a meet-and-greet for clergy on Thursday, acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison described his recent arrival in the city as a “calling” from God — and one for which his own experience as a church elder in New Orleans prepared...

A mobile app that provides users with real-time alerts about crimes and other emergency situations in their immediate surroundings launched Wednesday in Baltimore, its developer said. The app, called Citizen, collects publicly available information — such as police scanner chatter — and pushes...

Advocates for police accountability and transparency in Baltimore and across the state urged legislators Tuesday in Annapolis to pass a bill giving police administrators the discretion to release disciplinary and internal affairs records when they deem it appropriate. Currently, state law precludes...

A 25-year-old man charged in Friday’s shooting at Frederick Douglass High School has also been charged in connection with a homicide last November, according to the Baltimore Police Department. Neil Davis was charged with attempted first-degree murder and firearm violations in Friday’s shooting,...

The union that represents the Baltimore Police Department’s rank-and-file officers said the agency has “no existing crime plan” and patrol shifts are so understaffed and officers so overwhelmed by the volume of 911 calls that they are instructed on a nightly basis to respond only to the most violent...

The Baltimore Police Department’s efforts to recruit hundreds of new police officers to fill vacant patrol positions in the face of persistently high levels of street violence are not going well, according to new recruitment figures obtained by The Baltimore Sun. The department is not only failing...